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STUDIES IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY This series, specially commissioned by the Economic History Society, provides a guide to the current interpretations of the key themes of economic and social history in which advances have recently been made or in which there has been significant debate. Originally entitled 'Studies in Economic History', in 1974 the series had its scope extended to include topics in social history, and the new series title, 'Studies in Economic and Social History', signalises this development. The series gives readers access to the best work done, helps them to draw their own conclusions in major fields of study, and by means of the critical bibliography in each book guides them in the selection of further reading. The aim is to provide a springboard to further work rather than a set of pre-packaged conclusions or short-cuts. ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY The Economic History Society, which numbers over 3,000 members, publishes the Economic History Review four times a year (free to members) and holds an annual conference. Inquiries about membership should be addressed to the Assistant Secretary, Economic History Society, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Full-time students may join the Society at special rates. STUDIES IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY Edited for the Economic History Society by M. W. Flinn PUBLISHED B. W. E. Alford Depression and Recovery? British Economic Growth, 1918-1939 S. D. Chapman The Cotton Industry in the Industrial Revolution D. C. Coleman Industry in Tudor and Stuart England Ralph Davis English Overseas Trade, 1500-1700 M. E. Falkus The Industrialisation of Russia, 1700-1914 M. W. Flinn British Population Growth, 1700-1850 J. R. Hay The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, 1906-1914 R. H. Hilton The Decline of Serfdom in Medieval England E. L. Jones The Development of English Agriculture, 1815-1873 J. D. Marshall The Old Poor Law, 1795-1834 Alan S. Milward The Economic Effects of the Two World Wars on Britain G. E. Mingay Enclosure and the Small Farmer in the Age of the Industrial Revolution A. E. Musson British Trade Unions, 1800-1875 R. B. Outhwaite Inflation in Tudor and Early Stuart England P. L. Payne British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Michael E. Rose The Relief of Poverty, 1834-1914 S. B. Sa,ul The Myth of the Great Depression, 1873-1896 Arthur J. Taylor Laissez-faire and State Intervention in Nineteenth-century Britain Peter Temin Causal Factors in American Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century TITLES IN PREPARATION INCLUDE John Chartres Inland Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries R. A. Church The Great Victorian Boom, 1850-1873 P. Cottrell British Overseas Investment in the Nineteenth Century F. Caron and G. Holmes The Performance of the French Economy, 1870-1939 Richard Johnson Education and Society, 1780-1870 J. H. S. Kent Religion and Society in the Nineteenth Century John Lovell British Trade Unions, 1875-1933 R. Mitchison British Population Growth, 1850-1950 R. J. Morris Class and Social Structure in the Industrial Revolution Joan Thirsk The Changing Regional Structure of English Agriculture, c. 1600-c. 1700 The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms 1906-1914 Prepared for The Economic History Society by J. R. HAY Lecturer in Economic History in the University of Glasgow M ISBN 978-0-333-13588-4 ISBN 978-1-349-01524-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-01524-5 © The Economic History Society 1975 Reprint of the original edition 1975 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. First published 1975 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Associated companies in .New Tork Dublin Melbourne Johannesburg and Madras SBN 333 13588 1 The paperba